As Iraq observed the fourth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein, the president marked the anniversary by going to Arizona to address--about immigration. In his address, he didn't so much as mention Iraq. That pretty much ceded(退讓) the field to Ali Allawi, the former minister of Iraq, who gave a speech in Washington as he released his new book, The Occupation of lraq: Winnning the War, Losing the peace.

Nor does he have much faith in Bush's "surge" plan to pacify Baghdad with Maliki's government, "I think if things continue, I don't think we could expect things to improve in the near term."

     So what's the solution? "The time has come for Americans to take the lead, actually, in doing a U-turn, and by a U-turn I mean a fundamental turnaround in thinking about what's import ant and what's not important in the Middle East. And you have to move from this military (軍事) fixation to this new architecture."

     Stay the course? "The seeds of stability and insecurity will remain," he predicted.

     Withdraw U. S. forces? "That will lead to, in my mind, greater insecurity and instability, or it will lead to a free-for-MI."

     Whenever talk turned to a solution, however, Allawi became less confident. His solution an" international congress" authorized to "negotiate a security architecture for the Middle East"--is a nonstarter at the White House. And his preconditions for that architecture—for Sunnis(遜尼派) to accept their minority status and for Iran, Syria, Shiites and Kurds to" pull back in terms of their demands"--seem little more likely to occur anytime soon.

1. Allawi's proposal can be described as

    A. keeping to the course

    B. withdrawing the occupation troops

    C. returning the leadership to the United Nations

    D. establishing the new security architecture

2. It can be inferred from the passage that

    A. Allawi's solution will be adopted by the White House

    B. international congress has been authorized to negotiate

    C. Sunnis accepted their minority status in the negotiation

    D. some groups put forward their demands in the conflict

3. Which word best describes Allawi's feeling on the present situation of Iraq?

    A. confident          B. complicated       C. optimistic           D. pessimistic

4. Which of the following statements is true?

    A. Bush mentioned nothing about Iraq at the anniversary.

    B. Bush declared his new plan for Iraq in his address.

    C. Allawi made a speech in place of Bush.

    D. Allawi thought little of Bush's plan for Iraq.

5. Allawi felt less confident about his solution because

    A. the situation in Iraq is getting worse

    B. some groups in Iraq are against it

    C. the American government doesn't support it

    D. Maliki's government doesn’t support it

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  A.children are brave and strong

B.the enemy doesn’t consider children as a threat

C.there aren’t enough adults to join the army

D.they think children are very easy to control

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  A.try to kill people                  B.apologize to people

C.beat people violently               D.feel guilty about himself

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  A.are very poor                       B.have lost their parents

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C.there aren’t enough adults to join the army

D.they think children are very easy to control

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  A.try to kill people                                             B.apologize to people

C.beat people violently                                D.feel guilty about himself

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